Subject: Re: your mail From: dowjone!rexb (Rex Ballard) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 01:01:54 EST

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> Paul Raulerson writes;
> Well I m not talking about a small printing job but a high quality monthly
> magazine. For the magazines I have knowlegde of we are talking of inaccess
> of $1 million engraving costs, $14,000 per 4 pages for paper, then add in
> printing and mailing costs. Not a bad savings.
> 
> Why print it?? Make it interactive. Make it good enough that they willWANT
> to download it. They can do that at night. 

Let them search for the articles they really want to read.  Give them a
T-1 connection to the corporate LAN.  They can download an article in about
2 seconds, complete with 1 640x480x256color GIF, and reference information.
The GIF viewer will take 10 seconds to process the picture, and the reader
will spend 30 to 90 seconds browsing the article.

Alternative #2.  Send the text, including a reference notation.  If the
user wants the picture he can in download it in his choice of formats (GIF, TIFF,
PCX, PIX, or X11).  Download time at T1 rates:
	Text - < 1 sec.
	Data - < 3 sec.
	Reading time - >90 seconds.
	Reader Response time (take action on item)- > 2 minutes.

He wants to send the reference to his boss.  He sends the accession number
(host-id, publication, date, sequence#) and his boss can get the same article,
with or without pictures.



From jvncnet!marketplace.com!owner-online-news Mon Mar 14 10:38:59 1994